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How state budgets are damaging US schools - Bill Gates

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-state-budgets-are-breaking-us-schools-bill-gatesAmerica's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits -- with the financing of education at the losing end.Talk by Bill Gates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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